Talk:Hondo

Guys, I just watched this one for the umpteenth time and noticed something I've seen before but never much gave a thought to. It has me wondering now. In this one, Hondo, John Wayne, wears a gunbelt with his 1873 SAA holstered. It has cartridge loops for either .45 Colt or .44-40 cartridges. You can't see enough of them to judge the diff. But he also carries a dozen or more longer cartridges in the same loops. Looks to be .45-70 Govt. I know the old story about Wayne carrying one single .45-70 in the center back so he could tell when he was half down on cartridges....it was a pretty common tactic. You can see that in Wayne pics on the net. But in this one, he carries like five or six of them on the left hip, a grouping of about eight or so towards the back left etc. Altogether, his cartridges are about half and half. Would make sense if he carried a Sharps carbine as he's seen shooting in the last few minutes of the film, but he doesn't. He carries his good old Winchester 92 large loop. The Sharps, he picks up off a dead cav trooper during the indian fight. Any ideas what the larger cartridges are on his belt? I figured maybe it's a Josh Randall trick, but the two diff cartridges in almost equal amounts discounts that. --Richard